Presentation

Overview

Silicon Valley (and commercial enterprise in general) has been promoting a dangerous new definition of creativity. Capital gain, as the end-all-be-all, has infected both our intellectual freedom and our imagination. Even the most impermeable of countercultures find themselves commodified. Our present predicament begs the question: Is it possible to design an authentic and creative life that can thrive outside this current paradigm? My talk shares stories of failures and successes from my professional life, which started inside the system but inevitably broke off into an uncharted and infinitely more rewarding path.

Objective

The career ladder is broken. Design your own life of creative autonomy.